Michael Quinn Sullivan and the influential conservative group he leads, Empower Texans, haven't filed required disclosure reports on their lobbying and campaign activities, two Republican state legislators said in formal complaints filed today with the Texas Ethics Commission.

In one complaint, Reps. Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, and Vicki Truitt, R-Southlake, said Sullivan lobbied in 2010 and 2011 without filing the required lobbyist disclosures that he had filed up until that time.

In their filing, they said Sullivan and his employees lobbied lawmakers during the last quarter of 2010 and into 2011, when lawmakers began their most recent legislative session. "That ...

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I noticed he had not registered as a lobbyist and if I could have sworn as to the facts of what he was doing, I'd have filed a complaint myself, but I'm victimized only by the idiotic decisions of the legislators who are scared of their own shadows and Mucus' blackberry. He needs to serve some jail time. He knows there is a requirement to register. He registered as a lobbyist in the past. Everything he does is designed to influence legislation. The Republican Party would be a whole lot better off if it didn't continually devour its own tail to enforce ideological purity. What we are witnessing is the Republican version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. MQS is Mao. He should be jailed for his flagrant violation and flaunting of the law. It's ok however, Gov. P. and his friends will come through for him.